Bug 47252 - FILESAVE: cross-references do not export well to DOCX file
Summary: FILESAVE: cross-references do not export well to DOCX file
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 42346
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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(earliest affected)
3.4.4 release
Hardware: Other All
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Whiteboard: BSA
Keywords: filter:docx
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Blocks: DOCX
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Reported: 2012-03-12 14:30 UTC by Alan Krueger
Modified: 2017-11-11 16:40 UTC (History)
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Description Alan Krueger 2012-03-12 14:30:46 UTC 
Added cross-reference links in an ODT file to numbered paragraphs earlier in the document using "Reference".  In Writer, this shows up as the name of the paragraph being referenced.  These look fine until exported to DOCX.

Opening the DOCX file back in Writer shows the reference text as __RefNumPara__173_1178930885.  Typing around these refs in Writer appears to fix them.

Looking at the DOCX archive, word/document.xml appears to actually have the reference ID as text:

<w:r><w:rPr/><w:fldChar w:fldCharType="begin"/></w:r>
<w:r><w:instrText> REF __RefNumPara__173_1178930885 \h </w:instrText></w:r>
<w:r><w:fldChar w:fldCharType="separate"/></w:r>
<w:r><w:t xml:space="preserve"> __RefNumPara__173_1178930885</w:t></w:r>  <!-- here -->
<w:r><w:fldChar w:fldCharType="end"/></w:r>
Comment 1 sasha.libreoffice 2012-06-05 02:08:53 UTC 
Thanks for bugreport. Slightly resembles this Bug 46025
Comment 2 bfoman (inactive) 2012-08-09 12:01:48 UTC 
Checked with:
LO 3.5.5.3 
Build ID: own W7 debug build
Windows 7 Professional SP1 64 bit

(In reply to comment #0)
> Opening the DOCX file back in Writer shows the reference text as
> __RefNumPara__173_1178930885.  Typing around these refs in Writer appears to
> fix them.

Could not reproduce.
Comment 3 Florian Reisinger 2013-04-08 15:24:35 UTC 
Confimed with 3.6.6.2 4.0.1.2 and master:

Steps I used to reproduce:
1) Insert image
2) Add caption to the image
3) Try to cross reference
4) Save as .docx
5) Open in Word 2010 or in LibO and see it didn't work (The result is not exactly the same, but the problem)
Comment 4 A (Andy) 2015-02-26 19:52:21 UTC 
Reproducible with LO 4.4.1.2, Win 8.1

Note: In addition, the image is displaced and the caption is faulty changed.
Comment 5 tommy27 2016-04-16 07:24:50 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 Frederic Parrenin 2016-06-09 20:45:17 UTC 
I confirm this bug is still present in 5.0.6.
Cross-reference to a Figure number result in the word "Illustration' being inserted in the .docx file.
The export to .doc is OK, though.
Comment 7 Cristóbal Tapia 2017-07-05 08:32:48 UTC 
I can also confirm that this problem is still present in LibreOffice 5.3.1

Any cross-reference inserted is not maintained when saving to a *.docx file. Interestingly, opening a *.docx file with references created in MS Word does show the references correctly and are even maintained after saving the file as *.docx again. But any cross-reference created in LibreOffice just get replaced by the name of the type of object being referenced (e.g. Table, Figure, ...). 
So there seems to be a problem within the process of creating the references.
Comment 8 Lars Jødal 2017-11-11 16:38:28 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 42346 ***
Comment 9 Lars Jødal 2017-11-11 16:40:54 UTC 
The good news is that the bug is actually in the process of being fixed, see the latest comments on bug 42346.